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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Develop the digital and data strategies for a multi-state healthcare network with over 30 clinics, 500 providers, and 100,000 patients. Guide the teams delivering technology implementation projects across the organization, launching a new electronic medical record system, urgent care software, an organizational intranet system, and data analytics and reporting infrastructure. Execute the data and innovation strategy, identifying cloud computing consultants to establish cloud infrastructure while recruiting and overseeing 3 data engineering and scientist team members. Deliver a patient data platform built from 5 data sources used for monitoring patient interactions, quality metrics, and the identification high risk patients leading to a reduction in emergency department visits by 50%. Direct a cross functional team developing 3 clinical software products, using agile development to launch these products in new markets, growing the customer base by 70% in 12 months.

Guided a product team of 3 in a data driven product development process that focused on data analytics, user research, and experimentation to deliver 3 digital products for patient engagement, increasing engagement collection metrics by 200%. Launched digital products designed for electronic data capture in research trials utilized in new markets (UK and AUS) and increased the customer base by 70%. Established the clinical research department at Skylight Health Group, launching 5 clinical research trials across 3 sites in the skylight health group clinic network over 12 months. Developed the SHG Insights big data strategy managing consultants and an internal team to deliver key research and reporting projects leading to 5 publications and the acquisition of 4 industry clients.

Oversaw the development of a clinical decision support tool from inception to launch, combining data points from over 100,000 patients in a succinct and informative product for providers.Managed new product initiatives and strategy for the organization.Led the teams pioneering the organizations big data and artificial intelligence initiatives.

Defined a digital product at a start-up company focused on reducing burnout through the dissemination of findings from orthopaedic clinical research to over 200,000 surgeons, scientists, and allied health care professionals. Directed the discovery, development and launch of new educational features that increased time on site by 115% for our target market. Initiated user research for the organization, developing personas using Google Analytics, MYSQL databases, and user surveys.Facilitate the shift towards an agile development process while working directly with Machine Learning experts on Natural Language Processing projects. Implemented a process with a team of 5 medical writes to generate meta-analysis, systematic reviews and market intelligence reports for pharmaceutical and medical device companies resulting in 10-15 publications evaluating comparative effectiveness of drugs and medical devices. Fostered an environment of experimentation for a team of 6 medical writers that created over 5000 research summary reports for healthcare practitioners viewed over 500,000 times.

Performed critical appraisals, reviews, and summaries of best evidence in orthopaedics.Managed relationships with 20 key stakeholders in the orthopaedic industry.Developed 5 search algorithms for randomized control trials and meta-analyses used for 6 years by the organization.Contributed to the development of 5 research papers.

Planed and defined research and medical writing projects for clients.Managed data extraction and data handling for multiple health economic projects and meta-analyses.Conduct data analysis using Excel, RevMan, SPSS, and other statistical software.

Master Of Science (Msc), Integrative Vascular Biology

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Honours, Kinesiology